11545 (v.2) Geography 220 - Sustainable Rural Development in the Third World


 

Area:Department of Social Sciences
Credits:25.0
Contact Hours:4.0
Lecture:1 x 4 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s):11544 (v.3) Geography 320 - Sustainable Rural Development in the Third World
Prerequisite(s):1436 (v.4) Geography 111 - Natural Hazards - Geography of the Global Distribution, Causes and Impacts of Natural Hazards and Strategies Used to Minimise Risks or any previous version
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1437 (v.4) Geography 112 - Global Change - Demography, Economic Development, Environment, Urbanisation and Social Inequality or any previous version
Syllabus:Perspectives and concepts of rural development-early modernisation approaches through to green development, and gender and development. Contemporary issues of rural development-rural/urban imbalances, health, migration, poverty, resources, labour and work, cash cropping and subsistence production. Rural development practice-case studies, role of aid institutions both government and non government, methodological issues relating to data collection, analysis and project evaluation.
 

 

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